How To Install fonts-monoid-loose on Debian 12

Learn how to install fonts-monoid-loose on Debian 12 with this tutorial. fonts-monoid-loose is open source coding font with bitmap-like sharpness (loose tracking)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-monoid-loose on Debian 12.

What is fonts-monoid-loose

fonts-monoid-loose is:

Monoid is customizable and optimized for coding with bitmap-like sharpness at 12px/9pt even on low res display.

Monoid is semi-condensed and distinguishable glyphs with short ascenders, descenders, big apertures and super sized operators, punctuation.

It comes with regular, bold, oblique and retina versions with >750 Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, ligature, alternate and Power-line glyphs.

This package contains the loose tracking variant.

There are three methods to install fonts-monoid-loose on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fonts-monoid-loose Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-monoid-loose using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fonts-monoid-loose

Install fonts-monoid-loose Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-monoid-loose using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fonts-monoid-loose

Install fonts-monoid-loose Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install fonts-monoid-loose using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fonts-monoid-loose

How To Uninstall fonts-monoid-loose on Debian 12

To uninstall only the fonts-monoid-loose package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fonts-monoid-loose

Uninstall fonts-monoid-loose And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fonts-monoid-loose and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-monoid-loose

Remove fonts-monoid-loose Configurations and Data

To remove fonts-monoid-loose configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-monoid-loose

Remove fonts-monoid-loose configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fonts-monoid-loose configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-monoid-loose

Dependencies

fonts-monoid-loose have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-monoid-loose package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.